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Today’s Topics: LastPass Warns Users of Active Phishing Campaign Mimicking Maintenance Alerts LastPass is warning customers about an active phishing campaign that impersonates the service and attempts to steal users’ master passwords by posing as routine maintenance notifications. The activity appears to have started around January 19, 2026, and relies on urgency and familiar branding…
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CMMC 2.0 is no longer a future compliance program. It is now fully anchored in federal rulemaking and tied directly to defense contract eligibility. The program rule establishing the CMMC framework is in effect, and the DoD acquisition rule has formally embedded CMMC requirements into DFARS. As of November 10, 2025, contracting officers are authorized…
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Today’s Topics: Kimwolf Android Botnet Spreads Through Exposed ADB and Residential Proxy Networks A large Android botnet known as Kimwolf has quietly compromised more than two million devices by abusing exposed Android Debug Bridge (ADB) services and tunneling through residential proxy networks, based on recent findings from Synthient. The campaign illustrates how misconfigured Android-based devices,…
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Today’s Topics: Chrome Extensions Found Stealing Credentials from Users Across 170+ Websites Security researchers have uncovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions masquerading as a legitimate network speed-testing tool while secretly intercepting traffic and harvesting user credentials. Both extensions, named Phantom Shuttle and published by the same developer, continue to remain available for download in the…
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Overview: Phish Tale of the Week Ofteften times phishing campaigns, created by malicious actors, target users by utilizing social engineering. For example, in this text message, the actors are appearing as an unnamed organization. The message politely explains that they’re about to invest in a stock “projected to deliver a 60 percent return this week.”…
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Today’s Topics: Fake PoCs and AI Noise Are Slowing Real Vulnerability Response The React2Shell vulnerability exposed a growing problem that many security teams are now facing: a flood of “proof-of-concept” (PoC) exploits that either do not work or only apply in narrow edge cases. Some of the most visible examples appear to have been generated…
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Today’s Topics: Cisco AsyncOS Zero-Day Actively Exploited in Targeted Email Gateway Intrusions Cisco has issued an urgent warning regarding an actively exploited, maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS software used by Cisco Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager appliances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20393 with a CVSS score of 10.0,…
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is moving into a decisive phase of its quantum preparedness program as it approaches 2026. Senior leadership has framed this effort as a necessary response to long-term cryptographic risk rather than a speculative research exercise. The focus centers on protecting sensitive government data against future cryptanalytic breakthroughs tied to large-scale…
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Today’s Topics: Featured Browser Extensions Caught Harvesting AI Chat Data at Scale A Chrome browser extension promoted as a trusted, “Featured” tool has been caught quietly collecting AI chat conversations at massive scale, raising serious questions about extension marketplace oversight and user consent in AI-heavy workflows. Urban VPN Proxy, a Chrome extension with roughly six…
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Zero Trust has become the organizing model for most modern security programs. At the same time, more organizations are moving to SOC as a Service because the operational load of running an in-house SOC, tuning content, maintaining coverage, hiring analysts, and responding at all hours, is increasingly unrealistic. The question most security leaders ask now…
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